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On the importance of dental hygiene.

so just had my 3rd visit in 14 days to my dentist - had a bit lot of toothache and went to get it checked out.

Haven't been there in a while, it must be said... not that I'm a little wussy or anything, but I am not hugely keen on the enormous array of sharp hooked nightmares he keeps in that drawer. I cannot believe that so many different poky/proddy things and different drill bits actually exist in one place...

Nevertheless, he said the magic words - Root Canal. I was patched up and the canal was scheduled for a week later. It hurt like hell afterwards - with all the pulling and scraping and stuff, it felt like he'd smashed my jaw with a steamroller. It was given a week to "settle" before today's finish-up to make sure there was no infections or whatever.

It's mid-winter here in .za, which is a great pity since my dentist is a two-minute drive from the beach. I usually schedule appointments around the weather so I can take lunch in the sun there after I have been drilled and filled (my teeth, not me). The last two visits have all been in the pissing rain and no beach-going possible, but the sun is shining and so I went there afterwards to recuperate.

The plus is that the beach is the local unofficial nude beach (and also a notorious cruising spot - not that I'm that kind of guy; at least, not often) and so I actually managed an hour's worth of light tanning to give me a jump on the coming summer. The beach was basically deserted, so I got naked and even splashed about in the waves while making sure I didn't get caught in a rip with the tide going out.

I avoided any activity with the lunchtime cruising crowd when they arrived, though, although frolicking about with one's knob out does tend to garner a certain level of interest from the horny clothed masses.

However, it is something I hope to not repeat - at a cost of two thousand rand, which is a large chunk of change, it put the anal into root canal.

Re: On the importance of dental hygiene.

You know, I haven't been there in eight months (6 months being the usual interval for a visit). I should call again - see if that one wisdom tooth I have left needs to be pulled. Oh, and I should call the hospital to make an appointment for the test results. And I should call my podiatrist - need to have my orthopaedic soles checked.

I think I may be falling apart...

."We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan)

Re: On the importance of dental hygiene.

^^ however, they are usually in the realm of 400-600 ZAR depending on procedure done.

I have officially spent more in one sitting on one tooth than on anything else in my entire life ever, apart from college fees and a plane ticket. My medical aid is usually quite good with this, though, although I have never had to submit a root canal to them.

Re: On the importance of dental hygiene.

^^ however, they are usually in the realm of 400-600 ZAR depending on procedure done.

I have officially spent more in one sitting on one tooth than on anything else in my entire life ever,...d-

I had an implant done recently on a molar. It was a deformed tooth that had been capped years ago. First there was the extraction...painful as hell. Then a bone graph, fun, fun, fun... then the post implanted, more joy.

The whole lot cost more than I care to remember and insurance didn't pick-up the whole tab.

Actually, you can see my old cap in one of my gallery pictures. Wow, I guess I do open my mouth when I smile...and the other way 'round.

Even if we are just worm food then we are also the stuff stars are made of... I can live with that.

Re: On the importance of dental hygiene.

going to the dentist is one of those things that hurts less if you go more often.

remember to floss at least every day!!

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, But all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.